Karen Matthews hits the shops and meets pals for coffee as she emerges for the first time since damning finale of The Moorside, a British television drama based on the 2008 kidnapping of Shannon Matthews. It was broadcast on BBC One in two one-hour episodes in February 2017.

Britain's most hated mum is unmistakable as she shrugs through the rain sheltering under the huge hood of her parka jacket

The true story of Shannon Matthews’s disappearance - and where are they now .

A missing nine year old girl. A devastated family. A £3.2 million police hunt. A miraculous discovery of the girl safe and sound. Then a twist - her mother is arrested for her kidnapping.

It is no wonder that the case of Shannon Matthews gripped the nation back in 2008. Her disappearance lasted for 24 days and brought together hundreds in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire as they hunted for her.

The happy ending, as she was found safe and alive, took on another dimension as it was discovered that her mother Karen Matthews had known where she was all along. In 2009, she was jailed for eight years for Shannon’s kidnapping.